Schultesova lakota – Galium schultesii Galium schultesii

Features

Perennial, overgrown with horizontal creeping rhizome. It is an Eastern European species. Up to 1 m high.

Species	Perrenial
Living space	Conifer forest, Deciduous forest
Size	up to 1 m

Description

Stem in the upper part quadrangular. Leaves oblong-lanceolate, 4 to 9 mm wide, with pronounced veins, pointed, gray on the underside. Young shoots are bluish. The leaves are widest in the middle or in the upper half, especially bluish below. Dried ones usually turn black. The size of the flowers is 4 to 5 mm in diameter. The flower stalk is flat after flowering. It appears in forests and bushy slopes throughout Slovenia. It blooms from July to September.